kicad-mcp (blwfish)ECADConfidence: Medium

The KiCad MCP autoroute tool has its own async job tracking, "the same pattern as freecad-mcp's," and a shared mcp-jobs library was pulled out of freecad-mcp but never adopted there. The author says it's now a third copy and the copies differ (thread per job with 3 concurrent versus a single FIFO worker). Each CAD tool gets its own MCP server, and each server re-invents the same plumbing.

Impact Analysis

Persona

Electrical Engineer

Team Size Impact

5x Multiplier

Prototype Delay

3 Days

Est. Annual Cost

$30,000

1 user · 1 month240 min
Rest of team960 min
Rest of year13,200 min

monthly_minutes × 12 × team_multiplier ÷ 60 × $75/hr = $30k/yr

$75/hr assumed rate.

Annual team-minutes decomposed from the reported monthly inputs.

Evidence & Sources

1 Sources

blwfish/kicad-mcp Issue #191: Evaluate adopting mcp-jobs for autoroute job tracking (third copy of the freecad-mcp job pattern)

github.com

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Analyst Notes

From the Grok pain-radar digests, Nov 2 2026 (Nov 2 8:41 AM ET through Nov 2 10:41 PM ET digests plus the Haitch editions). Verified live 2026-11-03: issue/PR read; title and state confirmed.